To:CHARLES PROTEUS STEINMETZ

Published:First published in English in July 1923 in the magazineSoviet Russia Pictorial.

      First published in Russian on April 21, 1961 inIzvestiaNo. 96.

      Printed from a photocopy of the English text in an unknown hand and signed by Lenin.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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Tothe highly esteemed Charles Proteus Steinmetz, one
of the few exceptions to the united front of representatives
of science and culture opposed to the proletariat.

Ihope that a further deepening and widening of the
breach in this front will not have to be awaited long. Let
the example of the Russian workers and peasants holding
their fate in their own hands serve as an encouragement
to the American proletariat and farmers. In spite of the
terrible consequence of the war destruction we are going
ahead, though not possessing to the extent of one tenth
the tremendous resources for the economic building of a
new life that have been at the disposal of the American
people for many
years.[1]

VladimirOolianoff(Lenin)

Moscow. 7.XII.1922.

[1]Thisletter to Charles P. Steinmetz was taken to the U.S.A. by    

the American Communist Harold Ware, who in 1922 led a tractorteam on the Toikino State Farm in Perm Gubernia. SeeCollected    

Works, Fifth (Russian) Edition, Vol. 54, Document 354.